Alder, Jews in the village

Erle is a village in the southwestern Münsterland.

Only one Jewish family lived in Erle, named Herz, later Cahn. They moved to the village in 1824 and later ran a textile and haberdashery store in the center of the village.

The residence of the Cahn family is preserved and is located opposite the church.

In 1842, the Cahn family acquired a plot of land on Schermbecker Straße and built a cemetery there. A total of 11 members of the family were buried there.

There was no synagogue. The family probably belonged to the Jewish community of Schermbeck.

Two women of the family survived the persecutions, one hiding in the Lower Rhine, the other emigrating to South Africa. The remaining family members were murdered in Treblinka, Theresienstadt and Riga.